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So you didn't expect this version of the Happy Tree Friends? Believe it or not, the Fandom has transformed the little, cute, colorful critters into really popular anime characters, giving them depth and creating a lot of fan stories involving them.

Many can be seen here: Happy Tree Friends (you still have to make an account to see all the portrayals). Those who have a pixiv-account can find even more under the "HTF", "HTF擬人化" (Basically "HTF Humanization") and "ハピツリ" ("Hapitsuri") tags. The characters are human and more developed than the actual, canon characters, though there is no possible way to join all the interpretations of a character into one.

Note: This is only a large fanon creation, there is not an actual, official anime.

The most common themes or conceptions portrayed in the anime styled fanstories or fanart are:

  • Anime Hair: Flaky is usually given long, spiky red long hair, simulating her quills. Petunia is also given a long ponytail, reflecting her big skunk tail.
  • Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Giggles, Petunia and Flaky, although Giggles' strawberry hair is associated with strawberry blonde, while Petunia's blue hair is associated with black hair.
  • Covert Pervert: Many characters, but especially Flippy (when it involves Flaky) and Splendid (when it involves anyone).
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Flippy whenever any other male character gets near Flaky. Bonus added with the fact that Flippy is portrayed as an obsessive Yandere.
  • Flaky is this too, for both Flippy and Splendid.
  • Everyone Is Bi: (Excluding Ka-Pow! characters), and has been in relationships with members of both sexes in at least some stories.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Handy. Mostly due to the fact that he's frustrated because he is an amputee.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: Splendid appears sometimes in Flippy / Flaky serious comics and wrecks the mood. Nutty too, but he appears less often than Splendid.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Nutty and Sniffles. Splendont and Splendid are an inverted example color-wise, because, personality-wise, Splendid is the Hot-Blooded, enthusiastic of the two, while Splendont appears stoic or deadpan most of the time.
  • Romanticized Abuse: Apparently... many people think Flippy's most attractive side is the fact that he murders and abuses (physically and mentally) everyone around him.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: Cuddles and Flaky are shown to hang out together alone really often, but fans rarely pair them up or assume they have something going on. This is mostly due to the fact that Cuddles has a canonical girlfriend - Giggles- and that Flaky is automatically paired up with Flippy, despite that she has hung out with Flippy less often than she has with Cuddles.
  • Shown Their Work: It's easy to brush fans off as only liking the art style or the characters, but much of the art proves how faithfully they watch the show. An excellent example is this very page image, which depicts characters in notable scenes throughout the series.
  • Wife Husbandry: There are many side-stories in which Flaky is under Flippy's care as a little kid or she befriends him when she's still a child, only to fall in love with him later. One example is here.

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